General Editors' Preface

Acknowledgements

General Introduction

Contexts： History， Politics， Culture

Introduction

Imperial and colonial periods and terms

Aboriginal/indigenous people

Anti-colonialism

Apartheid

Cannibal

Caribbean

Colonialism and imperialism

Commonwealth

Decolonisation

Diasporan writers

Difference and dialogue

Discourse

Fanon， Frantz （1925-61）

Independence

Land rights

Nation and nationalism

Neocolonialism

Pan-Africanism

Postcolonial discourse

Postcolonialism and feminism

Resistance

Rewriting history

Settler societies

SS Empire Windrush

Terra Nullius

Tricontinentalism

2 Texts： Themes， Issues， Concepts

Introduction

Aboriginal literature

Aboriginal writing： testimony， tale-telling and women's experience

Anti-apartheid political writing

Challenges to empire

Colonial status and cultural inequalities

Cultural change

Diaspora

Forms of writing - identity and subjectivity

Gender and convention： African women's novels

Language， discourse， culture and power： reclaiming/rewriting language and power

Literature and politics

Mother Africa， Mother India， motherhood， mothering

Myths of adapting and replaying

Nation language

Nationhood and women's equality

New literatures in English

New views of indigenous people - questioning the record

Oral-based literature， oral literature

Patriarchy and colonised women

Performance poetry

Postcolonial Gothic

Postcolonialism and feminism

Postcolonial settler writing

Recuperating and rewriting history

Semi-fictionalised autobiography

The last outpost of colonisation： rewriting the coloniser's homeland， from the inside

3 Criticism： Approaches， Theory， Practice

Introduction

Some of the major issues

Carnival

Colonial discourse

Commonwealth literature

Cosmopolitanism

Critical issues： location and difference

Essentialism

Fanon， Frantz （1925-61）

Global citizenship and cosmopolitanism

Hobson， John A． （1858-1940）

Hybridity

Mimicry

Nation language

Negritude

Postcolonial Gothic

Postcolonial theory

Said， Edward （1935-2003） and Orientalism

Speaking about or for Others

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